Neil Brown and Katy Wright on life after being diagnosed with the condition
I fully support Jeremy Paxman’s position in presenting the government with the Parky Charter and its five recommendations (Jeremy Paxman says Parkinson’s ‘makes you wish you hadn’t been born’, 11 April). I also agree with him that the charter will have “no effect whatsoever” on this cold and uncaring government (my words).
But I’m surprised and appalled by his statement that Parkinson’s disease “makes you wish you hadn’t been born”. I was diagnosed with the condition six years ago, and from what I’ve seen of Paxman (in his excellent documentary about Parkinson’s last year), I’m probably at a similar stage to him as the disease worsens.
